THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 March 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

j EUKCTIiIO TELKGUtArU- COPYRIGHT.J [l'Bll PllliHh c.Sc-Ol iATION. J THE CAMPAIGN L\ KIIANOE. • , i'aris, March 28. Alter it violent bombardment of our positions from Avaucourt to Bethmcourt, the Germans at a in tihc afternoon, strongly attacked oil the ixui-cotirt-Malancouil front in succesivc waves. The assaults were all repulsed by our curtain of lire and infantry lire with heavy enemy losses. London, Maroh 28. fcjir Douglas Haig reports : —in spite oi' a heavy artiliery lire, we held the ground! captured at St. Eloi. We shelled enemy positions opposite Loos and Huliuch, and lacing Aix tsoulotto. G'Elt.vi A.\ IUSi'iXU.T ON EASTJfiLtX LIGHTING. London, March 28. Tlie .Berlin comnuiiuyue says:—The jllutsfcians again hurled fresh masses on the German lines at J'ostavy, wliero a Saarbrueck Corps bravely are uelying an assault. 'l'lie attack in several waves by two Russian divisions was dashed in pii'ccts by the Brandonburgeivs and Hanoverians. lighting witn the Saarbrueck Corps. f RUSSIANS IN ASIA MINOR. retrograd, March 29. A commiunique states :—We occu - pied a small town 30 miles* east of l'rebizoiid, and repulsed a series at Turkish counter-attacks. He carried out a night atacjv < Hie town of xlaza i, nouui-east oi JJittlS. 151 KIKE iilCi'OHTLondon, March 2b. In the ilou«% et-CommonSj Dr -Vduison; referring to the removal of six Oyde' strike leaders., said that the Uov eminent Had the support ot the vast majority of the trade unionists whom he expected would support .Parliament and tdie nation if it were necessary to enforce the full powers of the executive for maintaining the production of war materials (cheers). Sir Edward Carson asked if the six leaders were not guilty of treason. Dr Addison replied that deportation had been chosen because criminal proceedings wc ui.l requite some weeks. G IiIt.MAN DESTROYER RAMMED. The Admiralty reports that lightcruisers encountered a division of tterinan destroyers on the night of the 25th March. The Cleopatra rammed and sank a German destroyer, whose crew were lost.